LAW OF AREAS

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Meaning:

A law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times

Example:

Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun

Synonyms:

Kepler's second law; law of areas; law of equal areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("law of areas" is a kind of...):

Kepler's law; Kepler's law of planetary motion ((astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler)